The Washington Trust Co. announced that Kevin P. McGovern, has been named branch manager for Washington Trust’s in-store branch at McQuade’s Marketplace in Westerly. In the role, he is responsible for managing the daily operations of the branch, developing and motivating his staff and growing the branch’s deposit base and loan portfolio.
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PROVIDENCE – Gov.-elect Gina M. Raimondo, in her role as general treasurer, this month announced that Rhode Island has sold $49,495,000 in certificates of participation. The funds will be used for energy-conservation projects at Rhode Island College and the Pastore Complex in Cranston and for the acquisition of a modern, integrated computer system for the R.I. Division of Taxation.
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TD Bank NA, which lost electronic files containing information for as many as 260,000 customers in 2012, agreed to pay $850,000 to settle a multistate probe into the security breach, New York’s attorney general said.
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R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin is warning Rhode Islanders to be on the lookout for the latest “IRS phone scam” to hit the area. According to some estimates, consumers across the country have reported more than $8 million in losses from this scam in the past year.
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